Washington Police officers have arrested the hit-and-run trucker who sped off July 18 after his 18-wheeler crushed a small car at Slaton's Crossing on Highway 78. Washington Police Chief Mike Davis said that David E. More...

More than 90 local business people packed the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center on The Square Thursday night for the year's first Chamber After Hours event, staying well into the evening talking about life and business in Wi More...

Kiwanians hear state of the county Wilkes County Comission Chairman Sam Moore (center) spoke to Tueday afternoon's Washington Kiwanis Club meeting, a guest of Ed Geddings (left) and Ross Maynard. More...

Society has a tendency because of unbelief to think that the stories of the Bible are just fairy tales -- fables to be told just as moral examples. Either you believe they are true or you don't. More...

T he New York Times says that this groundbreaking book "offers much valuable advice on how parents and communities can address the problem of childhood obesity. What really comes across is that understanding obesity is not easy. More...

A memorial funeral mass for Grace Carey Jackson Ferguson, 89, of Washington, was held Saturday, August 2, 2008, at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Washington. A committal service followed at St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery. More...

A memorial service for Rachel Treadwell McGee Owensby, 75, of Washington, was held Sunday, August 3, 2008, at Hopkins Funeral Home, Washington. She died Friday, August 1, at the University Hospital, Augusta. Mrs. More...

A memorial service for Joanne Dawkins, 63, of Crawfordville, will be held Saturday, August 9, 2008, at 11 a.m., at the Greater Level Hill Baptist Church in Taliaferro County with Pastor Samuel Duggan officiating. Mrs. More...

Wilkes County taxpayers, up in arms about recent property tax assessments that have shot up, are meeting Tuesday night, August 12, to map out a strategy to deal with what they say are inflated assessed property values at a time when More...

Last week's successful Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce After Hours brought a big crowd to the Chamber offices, including all of the new and existing members of the Chamber Board of Directors. More...

Linda Stevens has been selected as the first recipient of cancer relief funds distributed by the T.J. & Friends Foundation, Inc., a new organization dedicated to helping cancer patients in a seven-county area. Mrs. More...

The Washington-Wilkes Community Blood Drive sponsored by the Wills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Shepeard Community Blood Center will be held Thursday, August 7, at the First United Methodist Church on Spring Street. More...

Phillips Mill Baptist Church of Washington will have four nights of revival services August 10-13. The service on Sunday night, August 10, will begin at 6 p.m. Services Monday through Wednesday will begin at 7 p.m. More...

Joseph B. Baldwin of Washington, a student in the School of Music at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., has been named to the dean's list for the spring quarter of the 2007-08 academic year. More...

Eagles' Wings House of Prayer will hold its first homecoming service on Sunday, August 10. Sunday School will begin at 10 a.m. and Rev. Bill Trotter from Clarkesville will bring the morning message at 11 a.m. More...